The towers as buildings: possible. But elsewhere 'the towers of Thangorodrim' clearly means the mountain peaks: Morgoth raised them as slag-heaps, etc.
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I'm not too sure how to interpret mighty in this case. Might doesn't always come in size,
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Certainly. Sauron was probably more powerful than Ancalagon, but certainly much smaller (in physical form).
What I meant about the size was the breaking of (possibly Everest-size) mountains.
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What we do know is that he fell from the sky, we don't know how far he fell, weight gains power the faster it moves.
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Yes, but I don't think you can break Everest with a blue whale, even if you drop it from space. Or rather, an aircraft carrier might be a better analogy -- Ancalagon's hide would have been more like armor steel than blubber.
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The thing that is always overlooked when discussing Earendil, is The Silmaril and Vingilot. This normal ship was hallowed by the Valar, it was filled with a wavering flame , pure and bright, on it sat Earendil with the Light of The Two Trees combined blazing from the Silmaril, nothing Black and Evil could stand up to that for long.
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True. Now, the Silmaril didn't slay Carcharoth, just madden him, even though he was more directly exposed, and presumably lesser than Ancalagon. But the Silmaril probably guided Earendil in some way (to strike at the proper point), and Vingilot may have had armaments of some sort.
Also, the Eagles of Manwe were in the battle too, and Thorondor was pretty gigantic himself ('thirty fathoms' - 180 feet across his wings).