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[LOTR] Why did the Valar honor elves that fought Morgoth when the elves were accessory to murder during the Kinslaying and openly defied the Valar's will?

For example Glorfindel gets to live again after killing a Balrog. However, according to the Valar, Glorfindel should never have been there in the first place. Why do the Valar overlook the crimes the elves did when the elves defeat something of Morgoth?
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Most of the Valar are very big on forgiveness (remember, a majority of them were willing to give *Morgoth* a second chance after his initial imprisonment), and Glorfindel did not actually participate in the Kinslaying (see The Peoples of Middle Earth, in *The History of Middle Earth*). Presumably he did some off-page penance in the Halls of Mandos for his comparatively minor crime of following his liege Turgon into exile, and then was allowed to leave.