[Sauron] was still fair in that early time, and his motives and those of the Elves seemed to go partly together: the healing of the desolate lands. Sauron found their weak point in suggesting that, helping one another, they could make Western Middle-earth as beautiful as Valinor. It was really a veiled attack on the gods, an incitement to try and make a separate independent paradise.
Letters, 131
aaaah excellent so the Noldor in Eregion were working on making their land as safe and as beautiful as Valinor without the pesky ‘you can’t leave and you creative work is our property and you have to obey the Valar’ drawbacks to the real thing. And this is treated as a moral failing of theirs – the nerve of them, trying to achieve safety and happiness! Clearly suggesting that anything meaningful can exist without the Valar is a form of rebellion. 😦
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