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Actually, it is reputedly said in the History of Middle-Earth pt. IV, i.e. the Shaping of Middle-Earth (page 110, my Atlas of Middle-Earth says) that Thangorodrim (if they are indeed what is meant by the "towers", but I think they are, since they are referred to like that several times, I believe) were the highest peaks in Middle-Earth
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The quote is from the 'Quenta Noldorinwa':
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Feanor died in the hour of victory, looking upon the gigantic peaks of Thangorodrim, the greatest of hills of the world
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"The world" was subsequently emended to "the hither world", presumably to allow for Taniquetil to be the highest peak in Arda.