Do Officers have Batman?

[Starbreaker]

Only on the holodeck...

 

[plynch]

Tolkein created Sam Gamgee as Frodo's batman. "My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself" (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter).

 

[NickInABox]

So would that mean that Batman's batman is Robin? If that's the case, shouldn't Robin be Batman? Well... nowadays he is, since they killed Bruce Wayne...