I don't think it was a double standard. It was visiting Valinor that was forbidden to the Numenoreans, not the elves.
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Do you really want to know / Or are you a little scared,
Afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have Him be?
--OC Supertones, "Wilderness"
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." -- Max Beerbohm
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