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I also have one question on the marriage of Idril and Tuor. Since Tuor and Idril sailed off into the sunset, and their deaths were never recorded, did Idril sacrifice her immortality for Tuor? I think she would have to since Luthien and Arwen both did also, but I don't remember actually ever reading it through-out all the books.
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If I remember correctly, Tuor arrived in Valinor and was counted as an elf, and his fate was sundered from the fate of men.
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OK. This confuses me. The Silmarillion does indeed say that "Tuor alone of mortal Men was numbered among the elder race ... and his fate is sundered from the fate of Men". But it also says, of Earendil, that he:
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... first of living Men, landed on the immortal shoes ...
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Does this mean that Tuor "became" one of the Eldar before he landed in Valinor? How could this happen? Presumably, only Iluvatar could change his fate in this way, but why would He do this during the course of Tuor's voyage, before he even landed? Is there anything in JRRT's other writings that sheds any light on this?