Mordor makes me thirsty! The power of Tolkien!

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I don't have such a terrible bathroom!

...and, is the person on the picture male or female

Ah, I thought, when I read this reply, here we have the conumdrum of the anonymous internet which masks gender and you are outing yourself with a subtly unstated, "Hey, I'm a guy." Just the other day someone mentioned that Raynor was a girl, to much amazement from a third Downer. So, I was prepared to re-evaluate my thoughts about Legate's hot, steamy read.

It was harder than I thought, I discovered that the combination woman + reading +bath produces far more images than the combination man + reading + bath.

One of my early searches produced:





Yet this did not chime with the image of a warm, steamy, relaxing bath. Back to the google board, as it were, where I found that there was a much more common activity associated with men in tubs than reading.





However, once again, this seems not to fit well the image Legate's description created in my mind. Onward again.




Well, here we have an attractive young man, book in hand, tub-bound and displaying a hobbitish friendly wave. But the clothes don't belong in a restful bath after hard exercise. No, this one isn't quite right either.





Finally, a pose of some merit. Anyone who reads a magazine editted by Dave Eggers has to be cool enough to be a Downer, right?

But wait, Legate has coyly declined to be explicit about his identity. I went back one last time to cover all bases. We have quite a run on cat mascots here at the Downs, and with Hookbill's Serious Cat and the cat theme of my blog, I thought it perhaps wisest to provide one last alternative. If none of these fit, then I humbly beg Legate to provide a bit more explanation of how his bathroom is not "so terrible", so I can google "lovely bathrooms + book" or something like that. And we shall leave which Tolkien book Legate would be reading to someone else's photoshop capabilities.