It is said in the RotK that he was a Black Numenorean who was in the service of Sauron and under him, he grew in witchcraft and sorcery, and he gained Sauron's favor. Not too sure how he lived that long, unless it was some of his sorcery that he grew so powerful in.
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'They say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end."
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