[SpaceWeavil]

I'm nurturing a few ideas that may be part of Bodysnatcher or perhaps a fic in their own right, but to do this I've been researching The Mouth of Sauron, and found very little. There's the paragraph in RotK that suggests he was one of the Black Numenoreans, and therefore would be incredibly old by the time of the War of the Ring. So are there any theories out there as to who he was or how he could have lived so long? All I've been able to find is the factoid I stated above and that he'd been around so long that he'd forgotten his own name.

[Yavanie]

The Nazgul were corrupted by the power of the rings. Strider tells Sam that because Frodo was stabbed by a Morgul blade he would become a wraith like them, but weak and under their control. Maybe something similar happend to MoS? Some other evil device or injury brought him under the control of Sauron?

just a suggestion.

[ghettoelleth]

Sauron was one of the Maiar, like Gandalf. Maiar were the spirits that Eru made to assis the Valar in their work. He was corrupted by Morgoth. The Maiar were created before the beginning of time, which is to say, before the valar made the sun and the moon and time was counted by day and night. I have some good resources if you want to e-mail me through this site.

Good luck

[VanatheEverYoung]

I've been thinking about this for days, but I'm not sure if I found any answers. I kept coming back to one answer: Sauron. It was probably in his best interest to keep his Mouth alive. You know, being a giant eyeball and whatnot. Although, he probably could have enslaved a new one ... Anyway, that's the only thing I can think up. I know magic is an easy out in M-E. Sorry. I have never read about MoS anywhere except in ROTK. But, hey, if my solution doesn't float your boat, you could always use the tried and true Mary-Sue method. He's a half-elf, OF COURSE!

[SpaceWeavil]