Tuor's 'immortality' is confirmed by Letter 153.
In that Letter JRRT notes the 'supposition':
"Túor weds Idril the daughter of Turgon King of Gondolin; and 'it is supposed' (not stated) that he as an unique exception receives the Elvish limited 'immortality'...".
He then later confirms it by stating:
"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 Túor) and the position of their descendants was a direct act of God."
Note the statement that Tuor's case was the result of an act of Eru.
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