Doing some general browsing and I found the LOTR story told in 1000 words on a site dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. I've been wondering lately how I can tell the story to my son as a bedtime story... and this is a pretty good start. It's a pretty dry matter-of-fact read, but good none the less. It's also a good way to see how the books split up the story versus how the movie split it up.