Indeed, I believe most of the peril would've come as a result of Sauron and the Numenoreans as his tool as opposed to the Numenoreans alone. The Valar's decision to appeal to Eru was prompted by their plans for attack, but probably not the only reason. Why not go ahead and make changes to prevent the possibility of such attacks from anyone? It would be interesting to know how they would've gone about causing so much damage to Valinor.
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