Well, I have realized, to my great displeasure, that my copy of the HoME volumes is lent to someone. I have, however, discovered, or at least remembered, the quotes my point requires. I still have the Silmarillion, and am currently digging through that dwarfishly.
I was certainly wrong about werewolves being Maiar, since apparently they were technically bred by Morgoth. Not like orcs, but similar. The werewolves were...
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"Werewolves, fell beasts inhabited by dreadful spirits that he (Sauron) had imprisoned in their bodies."
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The Silmarillion, Of Beren and Luthien
Of course, vampires are a different story. Christopher Tolkein, in one of his notes I tracked down, speculates that "vampires like Thuringwethil, being thus able to transform into a bat-like creature and fly aloft, were presumably maiar or some such being." Also, to support my point, both the Encyclopedia of Arda and Atlas of Middle-Earth (at least relatively respactable volumes of Tolkein, but not written by him) state that the vampires either were maiar, or something close to being maiar.
P.S. On the matter of the C.T. quote, I know not where that is from specifically, since I first read it on the internet earlier. I, unfortunately, have blanked out on the site and am trying to find it so I can post a link, though it seemed respectable enough (anyway, who would make up things for Christopher Tolkein to say?)