Names such as BOLT, NAIAD, and COURT that are especially suited to the profession or a characteristic of their owners are called
aptronyms. Believe it or not, Daniel Draft is a barber, C.
Each phase is marked by his self-appointed aptronyms: amongst the Outlaws, he is Neithan, The Wronged (Children 101); while commanding the forces of Talath Dirnen, he is Gorthol, The Dread Helm (146).
Because his epitaph bears the name Turin Turambar, as Tom Shippey claims, the combination of his birth-name and his aptronym form an amalgam of two distinct identities: "What these words [doom and fate] imply is in a sense illogical or self-contradictory.