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Why Bandersnatch?
A bandersnatch is a fictional creature invented by Lewis Carroll in his novel Through the Looking-Glass, but we adopted the name in a circuitous manner. In Diana Pavlac Glyer’s book Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings she writes that C.S. Lewis once remarked about his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, “No-one ever influenced Tolkien. You might as well try to influence a bandersnatch.”
Illustration: Peter Newell, from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902)