Originally Posted by arapanasati

To the person that said their lotro client was 8.7~ gigs.

Mine was 12 or 13 when finished, I did the tiered download. I read a while ago that if you do the tiered download then your graphics will be lower than they should be until you have it fully installed. It doesn't sound like you did the tiered but maybe the fact that your client is 4-5 gigs smaller has something to do with it.