Poor Noldor.
Also, the line "they might have won had all their hosts proved faithful" doesn't concretely say that they would have won. It just says that they might have won. Even if the Easterling men had proved faithful, Morgoth was still infinitely more resourceful and powerful than the forces of the Elves. There were plenty of ways he could still defeat them.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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