Thankyou, Anwise Gamgee. He really does well in many previous periods of art, but I do think the films brought out the "baroque" in him in his scenes. If scenes like Rivendell were late nineteenth century, the fireside scene, the Prancing Pony and most of Frodo's Mordor scenes were definitely late Renaissance and Baroque.

I am so thankful PJ hired the art directors they did. Together with the other designers they created a film filled with icons from art history. I think they helped give it that "epic", "great" feeling, as did Howard Shore's music.