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The Taniquetil Montes are a range of mountains on Titan the largest moon of the planet Saturn. The range is located near Titan’s equator between 2-4° south and 211-214° west. It is located within the Adiri region just west of the landing site of the Huygens probe.The Taniquetil Montes are named after Taniquetil a mountain in the Undying Lands in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-earth. The name follows a convention that Titanean mountains are after mountains in Tolkien’s work.