Since it's in the Book of Lost Tales, I'd say that those spirits were things that ended up on the editing room floor (so to speak).
At least I can't recall anything like this making it into any of Tolkien's canonical Middle earth works.
[ June 03, 2002: Message edited by: Kuruharan ]
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