Breaking the Habit
"Nerdanel, this madness must cease! I insist you give each of our twin sons their own names!" Feanor pleaded, clasping his wife's hands beseechingly.
"You know that even if I do, they will never stop calling each other Ambarussa." she smirked, putting a hand on her kneeling husband's dark head.
"I cannot stand it another moment! I can never tell which is which, my youngest sons will have no sense of identity." he moaned as if watching his life crumble before his eyes.
"Fine. I shall rename them."
"Anything but Ambarussa!" Feanor cried passionately, finding his wife suddenly more attractive than she ever had looked.
At the sound of their name, two identical russet-topped heads appeared around the doorway.
"Yes, ada?"
"You called us?"
"Ai! We must break this habit now!"
"Umbarto." Nerdanel decided suddenly, interrupting Feanor's exclamations over his two terrified sons.
"What?" he queried, glancing up in surprise.
"Umbarto, The Fated. That shall be one of their names."
Feanor looked from his son, Umbarto, to his triumphant wife, and back again.
"Of all the names you could have chosen, Umbarto?" he cried in dismay, realizing that his wife might just have birthed too many little boys for her own good as disturbing images involving his beloved son flashed before his eyes.
"You pick. Umbarto or Ambarussa."
"He shall be named Ambarto. Then I think the Ambarussa habit will be easier to break." Feanor sighed in defeat, leading his twin sons, both addressing each other as Ambarussa, away.
Amrod and Amras were Feanor's last two sons(identical twins at that). When they were born, their mother, Nerdanel, named them both Ambarussa(which basically means red-haired). Feanor insisted they each have their own names, so she named Amrod Umbarto, the fated. Feanor, disturbed, changed this to Ambarto. Unfortunately the name Umbarto was in fact prophetic, and Amrod was accidentally killed in the burning of the ships at Losgar, the first of Feanor's seven sons to meet his end. Although they were renamed the twins called each other Ambarussa for the rest of their lives(poor Feanor, foiled again)