Most Shocking Moment You've Ever Read

[Sfinx]

Not sure whether these completely live up to the stated requirements, but these moments / scenes have left a real impression:

- Gandalf confronting the Balrog
- Bilbo's riddle game with Gollum
- The Mouser and Ffahrd ascending Stardock
- Nom breaking down Revelstone's gates
- Ged meeting his Shadow
- Richard's 1st weeks with Denna
- Cath's re-appearance
- Kellhus (and Serwe) hanging from the tree
- cpt. Paran's time inside Dragnipur
- Severian assisting in Dr Talos' play
- Deth's betrayal of Morgon (both times..)

are among the first that come to mind. Re "shocking": the pig-slaughter scene in Perdido Street Station :/

 

[FinnMacCool]

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[FinnMacCool]

For sheer awesomeness the conclusion to The Power That Preserves when Thomas Covenant finally confronts Lord Foul.

For a shocking final twist, the end of the Dark Tower series where

Spoiler

we learn Roland is stuck in a time loop, experiencing the events of the series over and over again.

And for something that I just did not expect to see, someone shouting "You little slut!" in the sixth Harry Potter book.

 

[MadPiper]

Shocking moments rather then moment.

Anytime a female character walked into Terry Goodkind's, Sword of the Truth series and making it out without being raped.

 

[Andols]

Shocking moments rather then moment.

Anytime a female character walked into Terry Goodkind's, Sword of the Truth series and making it out without being raped.

lol.

I thought Gollum falling in to mount doom was pretty intense for me when I was a youngster.

 

[viking longship]

Hammer and the Croos

The book I am reading right now,Hammer and the Cross, And the things that one of Ragnarson,s (AKA) the boneless one does to each English King that the Viking,s capture is book dropping, So I would have to say thats been the most shocking and GRITTY stuff iv read so far. And I would agree that as far as magic goes, When Pug/Milamber destroyed the collisium was pretty awesome. I am still fairly new to reading fantasy so I dont have much to go off of but those two mentioned above are definatly worth the mention, IMAO.