Concept Art from Lord of the Rings

I realise noone really had to do any product design for Lord of the Rings, it's an old world where they didn't have supermarkets or shops that sold anything other then raw materials and vegetables. But they did have to design places, people and weapons and I'm just looking into the art they had whilst designing different things like that to help me work out how to go about mine.

 This is the house of the elves, a set design done won't quite be going this big simply because I can't draw as well as the people who do this stuff.

A set of armour and a weapon design done, I really liked this because of how it been broken down and enlarged to show some of the details and pieces that you couldn't see in the full picture.