LotR --- Appendix D -- The Calendars

One observation - the Elven week of six days has no relationship whatsoever to the Biblical week, which includes a day of rest after six days of creation. Apparently there was no hallowed day for them?

Maybe since the Elves were closer to nature and to the Maker(s), they didn't need a separate day devoted to rest and to contemplation? I've wondered about it, too. Perhaps they didn't consider their creative work to be work, like many of us more earthly beings do

I also wondered if the base-six calendar is supposed to echo the ancient Eastern number systems--I know Egyptian and Babylonian and/or Sumerian cultures used the six and three hundred-sixty before other systems...just a thought.

Cloudberry