The term itself is an oblique reference to Olaf Stapledon's classic science fiction epic Last and First Men.

* Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and its sequels

* Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, a vast future history published in 1930 and spanning billions of years, includes a long and carefully worked-out account of several Martian invasions of Earth over a period of tens of thousands of years.

* Spatt, Hartley S. " Mary Shelley's Last Men: The Truth of Dreams ".

Elendil and the Elven-king Gil-galad formed the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and together with Isildur and Anárion, they besieged and defeated Mordor.

After Morgoth's defeat, Sauron extended his influence over the Easterlings, and although Sauron was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age, the Easterlings were the first enemies to attack Gondor again in.

For many years the great coalition ( The Last Alliance of Elves and Men, as it became known ) besiege Mordor.

In the Second Age the High Pass was used by the army of Gil-galad and Elendil when they marched to Mordor in the War of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

Both Elendil and Gil-galad set out for Mordor in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men and defeated Sauron in the Battle of Dagorlad and finally in the Siege of Barad-dûr.

The Third Age began after the first downfall of Sauron, when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Númenor.

It lasted for 3441 years, and ended with the downfall of Sauron, when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Númenor.

They were lost because of the events of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

* 1998: The Last Hard Men ( The Last Hard Men ) ( limited release 1998, reissue 2001 )

Barad-dûr was besieged for seven years by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men and was levelled after Sauron's defeat at the end of the Second Age, but because it was created using the power of the One Ring, its foundations could not be destroyed completely unless the Ring itself was destroyed.

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

It was later revealed he was the leader of the Nazgûl, who were dispersed after the first overthrow of Sauron in at the hands of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, but survived nonetheless.

Gil-galad, Elendil, and Isildur led the Last Alliance of Elves and Men from the North to challenge Sauron.

* 1938: A Rose, per Chance ; The Last Port of Call ; Men in Black

He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Longest Day, The Comancheros ( sharing leading man status with John Wayne ), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari, The City Beneath the Sea, An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Captain Apache, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Treasure Seekers and The White Buffalo.

Several battles were fought here, most notably the Battle of Dagorlad at the end of the Second Age when the Last Alliance met the forces of Mordor with many casualties on both sides amongst Elves, Men, and Orcs.

The contract meant that Lippert and Exclusive effectively exchanged products for distribution on their respective sides of the Atlanticbeginning in 1951 with The Last Page and ending with Women Without Men ( AKA Prison Story, 1955 ).

* Brian Garfield – The Last Hard Men

* Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

*" How Far to the Last Movie ?," Monthly Film Bulleting ( London ) Oct. 1982

Discovery also produced the hits " Shine a Little Love ", " Last Train to London ", " Confusion " and " The Diary of Horace Wimp ".

* The Last Days of Papal Rome by Raffaele De Cesare ( 1909 ) London, Archibald Constable & Co.

* Last Tube Times for London Underground

Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for " The Last Emperor " in London.

* Yigael Yadin: Bar Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1971: ISBN 0-297-00345-3

* Hannah Pakula, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).

* Beerbohm, Max Last Theatres 1904-1910 London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1970.

Last page of a letter from Mazzini to Carl Schurz when both were in London in 1851.

Jack London studying at Heinold's First and Last Chance in 1886

As a schoolboy, London often studied at Heinold's First and Last Chance, a port side bar in Oakland.

Two editions of The Last Man were published by Henry Colburn in London in 1826, and one edition in Paris in 1826 by Galignani.

The Last Supper: the Mafia, the Masons and the Killing of Roberto Calvi, London: Constable & Robinson, 2007 ISBN 1-84529-296-0 ( Review in The Observer )

The Last Days of Papal Rome, Archibald Constable & Co, London ( 1909 )

* 1838 – The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London

Last woman hanged publicly in London

* On the October 28 of that year, Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

* Andrew Robinson, " The Last Man Who Knew Everything " ( London: Plume, 2007 ), p. 25.

It first appeared as a four part series " The Last Days on Earth " in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, for the month of April 1957.

Born in London, he made his first film appearance in 1944 but did not achieve lasting fame until the 1970s, when he took the starring role of Compo Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

* 2001: The Truth At Last: My Story by Christine Keeler with Douglas Thompson ; London: Sidgwick & Jackson ISBN 0-283-07291-1

* Spencer, Charles ( 2008 ) Prince Rupert: the Last Cavalier, London: Phoenix.