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Interesting. This might be one more of the cases where Melkor's misdeed played into the hands of Eru in the end.
In the Akallabeth it is said that the Undying Lands don't confer immortality, but that the immortals hallow it. This suggests that, if Aman was not a place Men could abide in without suffering, the world before Aman was made, and where immortals were all over the place, would have the same effect. The world, the way the Valar made it, would be uninhabitable for Men - without the Valar's intention, of course. Then, again without intention, Melkor comes around and drives a good deal of the immortals away, mars here and there, and thus makes the world bearable for the second Children.
But it is intention which counts. Though everybody likes snowflakes, nobody thanks Melkor for them.
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