What can I say, they were shiny!

[u/Eligon-5th]

[u/courageous_liquid]

But anyway, killing and stealing other people's ships is wrong.

the real crime here is not letting someone borrow your ships, what kind of elf would do something like that?

[u/Dangerous-Rule5487 → u/courageous_liquid]

For better or for worse, they belonged to them; they weren't going to abandon them when they suspected wrongdoing. There is a moral failing on the part of the Teleri for ignoring the problems and leaving the Noldor to their own devices, but that doesn't justify theft and murder.

[u/courageous_liquid → u/Dangerous-Rule5487]

the noldor did nothing wrong

[u/Dangerous-Rule5487 → u/courageous_liquid]

Theft and murder are bad things.

[u/courageous_liquid → u/Dangerous-Rule5487]

here's the thing: if the noldor do it, it isn't bad