[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

It's an interesting theory, with just one minor flaw: Helm's nickname was Hammerhand.

Personally I think they called him that because he kept mislaying his toolbox and having to improvise. The pain in his fists after bashing in nails with them left him in frequent agonised rage, whence derives his unstable behaviour. A man who has just punched some masonry nails into the walls of the Hornburg to hold a new umbrella rack is scarcely going to see the funny side when someone suggests he needs a walking stick.