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Originally Posted by Lalaith
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Because he's claiming to have been born mortal and he wasn't. He chose mortality...and also what I said earlier about keeping his wife hidden away in the kitchen.
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I know nothing of kitchens and the wives stored therein, but Tolkien's verdict is, in fact, that Elros was born mortal.
Were it not for the special grace of choosing granted to Eärendil, Elwing, and their children, they would all have died- mortal. Tolkien states in one of the later volumes of the HoME that any half-Elf would, by default, have been mortal. The special grace by which Eärendil, Elwing, and Elrond began Elven was just that- special grace.
Hence, Dior, Eluchíl, and Eluréd- and the children of Mithrellas (ie. the first prince of Dol Amroth) were all... Mortal.