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I know Dior was Half-man, 1/4 🧝Elf, 1/4 🧙Maiar, but was he Immortal?

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Beren and Luthien did not have a child until the were sent back AS MORTALS to Tol Galen in southeast Beleriand. Was Dior mortal or immortal? The book acts like he is immortal, but there is never any solid proof.
 
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Beren and Luthien did not have a child until the were sent back AS MORTALS to Tol Galen in southeast Beleriand. Was Dior mortal or immortal? The book acts like he is immortal, but there is never any solid proof.
I'm not sure, but I would presume he was mortal, since he was begotten after Lúthien and Beren were sent back to Middle-Earth from Mandos. But otoh, he married Nimloth, an Elven woman. Would he have done so if he was mortal?
 
he was mortal, insofar that he was not a full elf , but he was also more than a Man, as his mother was an Elf with Maiar blood in her. So his marriage to Nimloth was probably looked upon as a normal elven marriage . Dior was the first of his kind, there had been no half-elves before him, so I would think the Elves had trouble classifying him :)
 
He was probably Elf, considering his marriage wasn't considered as one of the 3 Elf/Man marriages.
 

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