I can (sort of) explain how he got his white stick. When he died, he was reborn into a different, but very similar body. He went to Lothlorien, where Galadriel clothed him and most likely gave him the staff that had probably already been prepared for him.
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I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed. I felled the black serpent. A grim morn, and a glad day, and a golden sunset!
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