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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
IF. It's also highly likely that was just a sentimental legend.
Had he reached Valinor- including by drowning and transport to Mandos- and been permitted to join the Elves of of the Blessed Realm- his case would have been raised as precedent when his son arrived. But instead Mandos, on the latter occasion, flatly declares that no Man may tread the Undying Lands and live.
Dior didn't live long enough for us to point to any unusual longevity; born 470 died 506.
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Tolkien strongly indicates that Tuor gaining immortality is not just some legend, but accurate.
"Immortality and Mortality being the special gifts of God to the Eruhini (in whose conception and creation the Valar had no part at all) it must be assumed that no alteration of their fundamental kind could be effected by the Valar even in one case: the cases of Lúthien (and Tuor) and the position of their descendants was a direct act of God."
I don't think Tuor arrived in Valinor before his son and even if he did I don't see why his case would be used as a precedent. Tuor like Luthien was allowed to change their natural fate, by a special act of Eru.
The issue with Earendil was deciding what his default fate should be. In the end it was decided that anyone with mortal blood would be mortal, unless given another doom.