It seems we have a conflict!
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'The Doom of the World,' they said, 'One alone can change who made it. And were you so to voyage that escaping all deceits and snares you came indeed to Aman, the Blessed Realm, little would it profit you. For it is not the land of Manwë that makes its people deathless, but the Deathless that dwell therein have hallowed the land; and there you would but wither and grow weary the sooner, as moths in a light too strong and steadfast.'
-Akallabeth, Silmarillion
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Thence the Eldar came to the Edain and enriched them with Knowledge and many gifts; but one command had been laid upon the Numenoreans, the 'Ban of the Valar': they were forbidden to tsail west out of sight of their own shores or to attemp to set foot upon the Undying Lands. For though a long span of life had been granted to them, in the beginning thrice that of lesser Men, they must remain mortal, since the Valar were not permitted to take from them the Gift of Men (or the Doom of Men, as it was afterwards called).
-The Return Of The King, Appendix A
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That last quote certainly suggests that if Men came to the Undying Lands they would become immortal.
The LOTR and ROTK therein was published long before the Silmarilion and the Akallabeth therein. So you have to decide, which is more canonical?