I haven't actually found LLRBs to be simpler to implement, and a couple other sources agree with me. They're pedagogically simpler than standard RB trees, but if your goal is to introduce students to a balanced binary tree, I'd argue that AVLs are easier to teach and implement than either RBs or LLRBs.

http://t-t-travails.blogspot.com/2008/04/left-leaning-red-bl...

http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/notes/llrb.html