Lindsay Ellis (born November 24, 1984[4][5]) is an American science fiction author, video essayist, film critic, and YouTuber.

[6] Ellis received her BA in Film Studies from New York University in 2007, followed by an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2011.

[5][7] Along with her friends Elisa Hansen and Antonella "Nella" Inserra, Ellis wrote Awoken, a paranormal romance parody of Twilight, about a woman falling in love with Cthulhu, under the alias Serra Elinsen.

[5][14] The three-part documentary The Hobbit Duology (2018), which Ellis wrote and edited with Angelina Meehan, was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.

[5][18][19][time needed] One such campaign occurred after she compared the film Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar: The Last Airbender on Twitter, which detractors perceived to be a racist generalization of media featuring Asian people.

[citation needed] In October 2022, Ellis posted her first video essay in nearly one year on streaming platform Nebula, discussing the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

[23][24] In early 2020, Ellis co-founded MusicalSplaining, a podcast in which she, accompanied by director and illustrator Kaveh Taherian, discussed a different musical every two weeks.