Blame Fëanor

[Beren3000]

Originally Posted by Wayfarer

Which, come to think of it, is a good thing. Those Valar, braying, incompetent asses, that they were, had been selfishly keeping all the light in the world locked away to themselves. The trees being destroyed was good.

So, Feanor was to blame for at least one good thing.

Sure, that's a way to look at it. But another way is that, instead of rousing the Noldor to rebellion, Fëanor could have used his charisma to do good by rousing those "braying, incompetent asses" into action against Morgoth. So the Valar could've went into action without the Trees having to be destroyed! So...good thing?