There’s a man in the Calm Lands who talks about High Summoner Gandof’s fight with Sin. Someone wrote telling me that he discusses Gandof and Sin falling into the bottom of the crevice, meaning it might be a reference to Lord of the Rings (Gandof = Gandalf). Is this true? I thought the crevice was just created by the battle.
It was created by the battle, but I seem to recall him saying that Gandof fell to the bottom during the fight and could never be Sent because monsters started showing up down there. Not a great loss since he was going to die either way though.
Can anyone double-check, please?
Sorry I can’t give you actual quotes, my memory is bad for this stuff.
EDIT: On the other hand my memory card works perfect 
These are the exact quotes from the guy (The one he repeats over and over when you talk to him again, not the initial dialogue with the moving camera):
[i]“This Gorge is called the Scar”
“They say that when the high summoner cornered Sin, Sin tore the earth here asunder with the last of its strength. The high Summoner and Sin struck each other down at the gorge’s bottom. Lord Gandof’s sacrifice brought us the Calm”
“In the Calm lands, we bury our dead in this gorge. We cannot send them because very few summoners ever make it this far. I’ve heard that the dead that don’t receive a proper sending roam the bottom of the gorge as fiends” [/i]
So you can see I made some mistakes. You can check this out by yourself if you have a save anywhere in the game where you can board the airship. And yes, it is pretty similar with Gandlaf and the Balrog, although if you want to be nitpicky, in the book: They fell, fought all the way up and Gandalf finally beat it on the mountain top.
But when Gandalf did beat it, it fell down the mountain. Im all for that its an LOTR refrence. It sounds pretty close to me. I, you might say am a LOTR specialist, and so know greatly on this stuff.
I think it sounds like a LOTR refrence.
“The high Summoner and Sin struck each other down at the gorge’s bottom. Lord Gandof’s sacrifice brought us the Calm”
Sounds almost exactly like the bridge of Khazad Dum. Gandalf and the Balrog faced each other, Gandalf ‘defeated’ it, then the Balrog counters and ‘defeats’ Gandalf by dragging him with it. Sounds just like the Summoner defeats Sin, Sin counters with his last strength and they both fall.