Rings of Power has just completely overhauled the geography of Middle-earth with its sixth episode, Udûn, and answered some critical questions about the orcs and their plans–here’s what happened and what it might mean for the future of the show.

Naturally, major spoilers to follow so if you’re not caught up on Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings TV show, best click away now.

We’ve known from early on that something terrible was going to happen to the Southlands–it doesn’t take a cartographer or Tolkien lore expert to put together that that particular region seemed to be conspicuously missing from the stories of the Third Age. And, similarly, it was never hard to spot the absence of one major part of Middle-earth geograph…