In reply to Quincey P. Morris
The interesting thing is I believe the books just state the edges of the sword glowed when orcs where near, not the entire blade.
I'm pretty sure the official explanation is when they tried rendering the CGI it looked like Gandalf had a lightsaber.Ranger #007 said:redline248 said:
If anything, Jackson should be criticized for not making Gandalf's sword glow around Orcs because he f-cking forgot it was supposed to!
I just figured it was on purpose so that Sting was the only one that did it.
The interesting thing is I believe the books just state the edges of the sword glowed when orcs where near, not the entire blade.