dior

cycas:

easterlingwanderer:

Friendly Reminder that Dior the Fair, Son of Beren and Luthien, was human since he was born after his mother was granted the Gift of Men and the Valar cannot take it away.

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I don’t think it’s that simple. Luthien was given mortality: whether that bound her child or whether he had the choice is unstated and can reasonably be read (or written) either way. Tuor seems to have had the rules bent for him somehow. Men are weird and freaky and outside the rules in Middle-earth and it’s a place where rules don’t seem to be absolute and can be changed : if Dior was mad to stay with Nimloth I can see Mandos shrugging helplessly and giving him the phone so he can talk to Eru personally about it.

Dior: I’M NOT LEAVING. MY WIFE IS AN ELF. WE WANT TO BE TOGETHER.

Mandos (shrugging wearily) : Oh god, it’s another of them. Fine, whatever. You talk to him, this is above my pay grade: just promise me you won’t call your mum about this.

I always thought that the Valar came up with the idea of letting Half-Elves choose whether to be immortal or not when Dior (and Elured & Elurin) died and they needed to make a decision.

As far as I remember, there is nothing in canon that indicates he must have been mortal, though it is possible – he still is ¼ Elven and ¼ Maia. Of course, whether a person is mortal or not depends on whether their spirit is human or elven. But I don’t think anyone knows how exactly spirits are “inherited”, or shaped by the identity and/or the spirits of their parents. So, I’d say Dior’s case is inconclusive.