How did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson create the pen name Lewis Carroll?

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson created his famous pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, through a creative linguistic process involving Latin translation.

He took his first and middle names, Charles and Lutwidge, and translated them into Latin as Carolus Ludovicus. He then reversed the order of these names to Ludovicus Carolus and retranslated them back into English to arrive at the name Lewis Carroll. He first used this pen name in March 1856 for the publication of his poem "Solitude" and subsequently employed it for all of his nonacademic literary works.1