Silmarillion - Chapter 07 - Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor

[Texadan]

Originally Posted by hewhoarisesinmight

As I've said before making Middle Earth 'blissful' would have made the lot of mortals unhappy because it would have the same effect as them going to the undying lands.

Sorry, I seem to have gotten us off of Chapter 7. But I didn't say that Middle Earth should be made "blissful". I said that the Valar's "...[summoning] the Quendi to Valinor, there to be gathered at the knees of the Powers in the light of the Trees for ever" (Chapt. 3) instead of helping them to grow and thrive and protect themselves where they were, and bettering Middle Earth in the process, was a symptom of, or, better, a mechanism for, the marring of Aman. Tolkien hints at this in the same paragraph "From this summons came many woes that afterwards befell."