Alatar's quote from the Silmarillion comes from the time of Feanor's revolt.
The situation changed at the end of the War of Wrath, when most of the surviving Noldor were accepted back into the Undying Lands, and again when the world was "bent" at the time of the Fall of Numenor.
The rules weren't fixed; the Valar could admit or exclude anyone they pleased.
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