> > > HOWEVER, there is no way in heck I would drop
> > >my pike to shield my eyes from the sun if I had
> > >an army charging directly at me.
> >
> > Exactly. Which is what lead me to believe they were somehow afraid or injured by the sun. But maybe it was just Gandalf's glowing holy visage they were scared of. :-)
> >
> > -- Dave
>
> I got the impression that it was more than just the sun but also the new aspect of Gandalf's power as Gandalf the White. I don't take him to be a Christ figure but he has become stronger and it would, in my opinion, take more than the sun for the Uruk-Hai to be blinded.
>
> Ferrick

True, but I would also like to point out that to my knowledge there is nothing in the book that says that the uruks are *completely unaffected* by the sun, or *completely immune* to it. It's just that they can stand it enough to march in it, and perhaps drop their pikes when facing it head-on, unprepared.