I found the story from a link on fark (which is also mentioned in it) and was happily suprised to find the SDMB “what if LOTR was written by someone else” thread mentioned (although the link in the article is to the Teemings site)
iT was a dark+stormy Nite . . . (it’s on page 5, but the entire article is a good read)
(also posting this is SDMB in livejournal)